THE CIRCLE

Nettie Redondo Peña, was in 1966, a film student at UCLA. Classmate and friend of Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison, it was only natural that she went one evening in May 1966 to "London Fog", a seedy bar located on Sunset Boulevard just a few steps from the famous "Whisky a Go". -Go". (It is also here that Jim Morrison, the shy young singer of the group will meet Pamela Courson, after numerous attempts by John Densmore to flirt with her...in vain.)

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Once there, she turns on the recorder she borrowed from school where her father works and captures one of the DOORS' first public performances. Only a handful of spectators are captivated by the group which strives to take up Blues standards, ranging from Muddy Waters to Little Richard, in front of a relatively indifferent audience.

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From January to May 1966, The Doors play 5 x 45 minutes there (...and no more, the manager cutting the music beyond.) 6 evenings a week, from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., and this for the modest sum $5 each ($10 on weekends).

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The same year the DOORS are also credited for their participation in the soundtrack of Nettie Peña's graduation film, "Call it Collage '66". The latter will be broadcast during a gala evening organized by the Cinema section of UCLA.

Thanks to Nettie Peña, DOORS fans had the privilege of seeing the first recordings of DOORS in concert released in 2016, in the form of a magnificent box set limited to 18,000 copies!